I have this feeling that Welker will be doing returns. If so, could be just as scarey are Edelman. But could be good, could wear him down sooner and decrease WR production.......and he may be more likely to get injured (hopefully nothing serious but enough to slow him down).

I've been over visiting the Pat's MB and I gotta say those are some pretty good fans and nice people. For some reason, I wasn't expecting that from a Northeastern fan base. It's been fun talking football with them.

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LOL dolts fan. Hey name two things your boy Freeney has never done in a full NFL season? - 16.5 sacks and 4 PD's. Your bonus 3rd is play the run - JJ Watt is on pace to have more tackles for a loss than Freeney has had total tackles in all but his rookie season.

I have this feeling that Welker will be doing returns. If so, could be just as scarey are Edelman. But could be good, could wear him down sooner and decrease WR production.......and he may be more likely to get injured (hopefully nothing serious but enough to slow him down).

HopefullyWelker will have 7or 8 kickoffs to return on Monday night. He'll be too pooped to pop a big play as WR. I like where you head is with this one.

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There are a couple of you I really feel like negative repping and it seems you don't understand football...unless many of you are going for reverse jinx, this is extremely sad. Look at the Pats last six opponents. The Bills gave them problems in Foxborough. Yeah, we've had a rough spot that we're coming out of, but the Pats defense has been suspect to terrible all year. If the Texans get less than 20, it will be because the pats never got the ball and we ran extremely effectively on them. There is NO chance in hell their defense is holding this offense to less than 30. Not a snowball's chance in hell.

Additionally, watching their line against Miami today, we should be able to get a ton of pressure on Brady. As long as our DB's just man their post for 3-5 seconds, we should be able to get some good stops. Even when we've been sloppy, we've still pulled it together when it counts, with the exception of the Packers. There are whole other reasons behind that which I won't go into.

Get the sand out of your undergarments and fan the hell up!

Texans 37
Patsies 24

I'm with you on this one. Really shocked to see so many picking against the Texans in here especially when the Pats O-Line is in tatters, their WR's are so depleted they had to go out bring back a 31 yr old WR (Stallworth) You could see in the Miami game that Brady's passing options were limited.

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Originally Posted by Texecutioner

A lot of people are forgetting how banged up the NE offense is. Gronk will be out and so will Edelman. Brady can certainly put up a ton of points with junk at WR, but with our defense it's going to be pretty hard with all of the injuries that the Pats have had on their key players on offense. NE's D is still suspect to me as well. The Texans are a more complete team then the Patriots though.

The biggest difference factor here is how well Brady ends up playing with so many of his weapons banged up and out on injury. Brady has been the MVP this season for sure with how many points he has scored. The Texans Defense will have to play like the Dolphins defense did today and hold the Patriots to a low score.

100% agree with your post. Gronk being out is a HUGE break for the Texans and Hernandez is not 100% either.

The Texans run game and D will win this game if Kubiak follows tendencies, but what are the chance that he will try to air it out early then bring the run game?

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Originally Posted by kiwitexansfan

I picked us to lose this one before the season and I won't be surprised if that happens.

I would trade this loss if it means we play full on against Indy for both the Indy games.

I would much rather lose to the Patriots and beat the living snot out of the Colts twice in three weeks.

Patriots 37
Texans 23

If we have to lose, this is the comment I agree with most. IMO the Colts are a product of a very weak schedule and that they have lost when playing good teams, so I do not think they will be a problem for the Texans. If anything the Vikings could be the team that shocks the Texans.

Pats IMO have also had a really weak schedule as well so why everyone is so sure they will drop 40 or 50 on a good D is beyond me.

I will not predict a score, but will go so far as to say the Texans win.

This is a mental game. Gary knows that Bill is going to focus on taking away an important aspect of our offensive game and exploit a particular weakness in our defense, so Gary will focus our efforts on a separate but equally potent aspect of our offense & disguise our defensive pre-snap look on defense. However, Gary knows that Bill knows Gary knows so he'll expect Bill to take away that second most important aspect of our offense & attack the weaknesses caused by disguising our primary defensive weakness, so Gary will improve out tertiary offensive aspect & disguise our defenses disguise.

This is a mental game. Gary knows that Bill is going to focus on taking away an important aspect of our offensive game and exploit a particular weakness in our defense, so Gary will focus our efforts on a separate but equally potent aspect of our offense & disguise our defensive pre-snap look on defense. However, Gary knows that Bill knows Gary knows so he'll expect Bill to take away that second most important aspect of our offense & attack the weaknesses caused by disguising our primary defensive weakness, so Gary will improve out tertiary offensive aspect & disguise our defenses disguise.

Win or lose I truly believe this is a preview of the AFC championship game. The question is - on whose turf will it be played on.

If the Texans win this game, the fat lady will be singing. It's basically a foregone conclusion at that point as they will own the tie-breaker over every single competitor and the Colts will have no real chance at winning the division.

Lose and it get interesting. The range of possibles is from anything to losing the division to the Colts and ending up as an 11-5 wildcard (very unlikely) to still having the #1 seed in the AFC. If they lose, they still control their own destiny, they just need to win out and/or hope the Pats stumble at least once.

Lose and my money is still on the Texans to own the #1 seed and host the Pats in that winner goes to the SB game...but it will certainly become very interesting down the stretch run. Win, and it's all but over.

In the AFC Championship game, I would likely favor the home team, so it's vital that they earn that #1 seed.

If I had to take a guess, I think the Texans finish 2-2 for an overall spectacular 13-3 record. We lose to the Pats and the last game to the Colts on the road....but still manage to secure home-field (barely) as the Pats finish 3-1 and finish 12-4.

As to this game, the weather looks to be a major factor. Brady has been very good in the rain. OTOH, if we look back to Chicago, Schaub wasn't very effective. Assuming this pattern holds, I strongly favor the Pats winning on their home turf -

LOL dolts fan. Hey name two things your boy Freeney has never done in a full NFL season? - 16.5 sacks and 4 PD's. Your bonus 3rd is play the run - JJ Watt is on pace to have more tackles for a loss than Freeney has had total tackles in all but his rookie season.

What a wussy. What the hell is all this talk of Defensive MVP about? LOL, I still don't understand why Leroy says the things he did; it's a free country, I guess.
You can be as dilusional as you please!

Bullblitz is a Colts fan. I am 99% sure he is the same Colts fan who was banned once over at HT.com for being a fake Texans fan and just stirring people up - and he has returned over there under the name AFCSouth where he also constantly makes negative comments about the Texans and sports avatars of negative Texans plays.

I disrespect him because he won't be honest like fans of other teams such as Bullock or Yvette.